This seems like an actively harmful norm, and should be stopped.
If the existing karma total influences your vote strength at all, then the same post could end up with different final karma depending on the order people read/rate it. I think that is actively harmful to the goals of the karma system.
This seems like an actively harmful norm, and should be stopped. If the existing karma total influences your vote strength at all, then the same post could end up with different final karma depending on the order people read/rate it. I think that is actively harmful to the goals of the karma system.
Yeah, this seems like a pretty reasonable reaction to me.
You’re right about the dependence on order. However, it’s worth pointing out that there is another way in which karma will depend on order that exists without this norm: people will decide to click or not to click on a post based on current karma. So, for example, if a post is at 2 Karma, persons X and Y will both give it −2 upon reading it, but X will only click on it if it has at least 2 karma while Y only needs at least 0, then the order X→Y will lead to −2 karma, while Y→X will lead to 0.
And a third way karma could end up depending on order is if people’s perception of how good a post is depends on how much karma it has.
You could still be right about introducing yet another dependence being a bad idea.
This seems like an actively harmful norm, and should be stopped. If the existing karma total influences your vote strength at all, then the same post could end up with different final karma depending on the order people read/rate it. I think that is actively harmful to the goals of the karma system.
Yeah, this seems like a pretty reasonable reaction to me.
You’re right about the dependence on order. However, it’s worth pointing out that there is another way in which karma will depend on order that exists without this norm: people will decide to click or not to click on a post based on current karma. So, for example, if a post is at 2 Karma, persons X and Y will both give it −2 upon reading it, but X will only click on it if it has at least 2 karma while Y only needs at least 0, then the order X→Y will lead to −2 karma, while Y→X will lead to 0.
And a third way karma could end up depending on order is if people’s perception of how good a post is depends on how much karma it has.
You could still be right about introducing yet another dependence being a bad idea.